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[ad_1] Committee on Academic Freedom Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Letter regarding the intensifying repression of students across Iran Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran c/o H.E. Mr. Ali Bahreini Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations 622 Third Avenue, 34th Floor New York, NY 10017, USA Email: iran@un.int Fax: +1 (212) 867-7086 Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian President of the Islamic Republic of Iran c/o H.E. Mr. Ali Bahreini Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations 622 Third Avenue,…

[ad_1] Keir Starmer and Donald Trump at Gaza “peace summit” in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Photo: Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street. It is one of the most remarkable ways to fall from grace.  Leading British Labour to a deceptively crushing victory over diddling, muddling, decrepit fools.  Asserting a period of stable rule, if not exactly dull then at least reliable after several stints of lunacy under the Conservatives gone to the bad.  But it was not to be.  Sir Keir Starmer, who announced his resignation as Prime Minister on June 22, turned out to be inept in several ways,…

[ad_1] Collection drives for food, clothing, medicine, and other essential goods have sprung up across Venezuela. Here, members of Provincial Trujillo Commune organize donations for families displaced by the earthquake. (Gobernación de Trujillo) There is no such thing as a purely natural disaster, especially in a country under siege. Likewise, the response to any disaster is always mediated by social, political, and even geopolitical factors. Following the devastating 1812 earthquake that occurred during the independence struggle, Simón Bolívar said: “If nature opposes us, we will fight against it and make it obey us.” Today, this remark can sound jarring—like a…

[ad_1] The Denver Public Schools Board of Education unanimously voted to fire French teacher Jennifer Honka for incompetence and neglect of duty. The move came after numerous student complained that as part of graded assignments, she used classroom skits in which female students felt pressured to kiss classmates of the same sex. Some students said they were embarrassed or uncomfortable. One received a zero after refusing to participate, and another’s attendance dropped after the incident. The investigation also found that Honka repeatedly shared deeply personal information with students, including her experiences with childhood abuse, infertility, being a lesbian, and suicidal…

[ad_1] Illustration by Paola Bilancieri. In 1950, the fourth FIFA World Cup was held in Brazil from June 24 to July 16. Brazil became the finalist of its group by defeating Mexico 4–0, crushing Sweden 7–1, and beating Spain 6–1. What happened then could be a lesson for this year’s soccer World Cup, where small country teams are performing with excellence. Unlike Brazil, Uruguay’s national team, by contrast, showed a different performance. They tied a difficult match 2–2 against Spain after trailing 2–1. Then Uruguay defeated Sweden 3–2, scoring the winning goal just minutes before the end of the match.…

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[ad_1] A 6 ⁄ 16 More details A wounded Palestinian infant at Al-Shifa Hospital, October 2023. Photo: Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa). CC BY-SA 3.0. On June 23, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel released one of the most devastating reports ever produced by a UN investigative body on the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Its title is almost unbearable to read: The Essence of Childhood Has Been Destroyed. Behind the title lies an accusation of extraordinary gravity. The Commission concludes that Israeli authorities and security forces have…

[ad_1] From Friday’s opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Fredin v. Klasfeld (the opinion doesn’t name the participating judges): Brock Fredin, a social media commentator, appeals the dismissal of his diversity action alleging that a journalist … defamed him by reporting on his well-documented history of harassing women and comparing that conduct to his recent criticism of a judicial law clerk in a high-profile legal proceeding…. Fredin … operates an X (formerly known as Twitter) account in which he criticized Allison Greenfield, the law clerk of the state-court judge presiding over a civil fraud…

[ad_1] The clergy-penitent privilege has been recognized in American law for more than two hundred years and is now widely enshrined in law across the country. In a recent article in Law and Psychology Review, however, my law school colleague Amos Guiora and co-authors Diana Pogosyan and Matylda J. Blaszczak argue for carving out a significant exception to the privilege. Their article—”Sacred Secrets Enabling Child Sex Abuse”—claims that the privilege “enables” child sexual abuse by allowing clergy to “turn[] a blind eye” to abuse disclosed in a confession. They propose that, to protect children, clergy should be compelled by threat…

[ad_1] There is a particular kind of arrangement that no law forbids and no scandal quite captures, because nothing in it is hidden. It sits in plain view, in regulatory filings and procurement requests, and it works precisely because everyone involved can say, truthfully, that they broke no rule. Friedrich Merz’s Germany is building one of these in real time. Start with the weapons. In July 2025, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told Washington that Germany wanted to buy the American Typhon launch system and Tomahawk cruise missiles — the system’s first foreign sale, the decision left entirely to the United…